1. Neighborhood Structure & Processes
H607: Ethnicity, Context & Family Dynamics

2. The Plan… Assessments of neightborhoods The Neighborhood Project
Processes of neighborhood – Family influences

3. Neighborhood Assessments
Processes
Social Cohesion
Block Analysis
Structure
Natural Boundaries
Consensus
Windshield Survey
Census tracts
Hubmaps:
Harvard’s MyNeighborhood Map in World Map:

4. Medford, MA
Block Group 4
Census Tract 3391
Block 4002

5. The Neighborhood Project
Define your neighborhood
Compare across windshield survey & census/Boston map indicators of
Boundaries
Resources
Stability
Disadvantage
Mobility
Etc.
Infer evidence of processes based on what you see (i.e., apply readings & materials from class)
Collective socialization/efficacy
Social capital and social control
Quality and accessibility of resources
What information will school personnel find useful for serving youth from this community?

6. Two Types of Readings
General Literature Reviews giving the prevailing theory and evidence (Leventhal et al & Cuellar & Jones, 2015)
Qualitative Studies to provide nuance to the realities of navigating neighborhoods (Burton, 2001 & Burton & Clark, 2005)

7. “It’s a nice place to raise a family…” What do you mean?
Processes by which neighborhoods effect children
Amplification vs. Family/Neighborhood at Odds
Collective Socialization
It takes a village…(well…a village that agrees)
Monitoring your own and others’ children
Implicit and explicit agreement about desirable child outcomes
Social Capital
Obligations, expectations, and trustworthiness
As norm producing and as access to institutional resources
Group membership provides access to collectively owned capital

8. Social Control
Social Capital
Established norms and sanctions that control behavior and help to internalize behavioral norms
Community norms/sanction that affirm appropriate behavior
Social Control
Collective
Socialization

9. What is your attachment to neighborhood and homeplace?
Homeplace: a multilayered, nuanced family process anchored in a bounded geographic space that elicits feelings of empowerment, commitment, rootedness, ownership, safety and renewal among family members.
Burton & Clark (2005)

10. Neighborhood as a site for “Homes”
Having a homeplace: Source of strength, social defiance, identity, privacy, power, control
Losing a homeplace: Source of conflict, loss, grief…

11. Homeplace in high risk communities

12. Neighborhood processes are both quantifiable and intrinsic to one’s own identity and social development

13. Coming next… SES, parenting, and children’ development
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